Modeling Total Cost of Ownership for a Colocation Deployment
A total cost of ownership model only earns its name if it includes the costs that do not show up…
Month: July 2026
Governing a Hybrid On-Premises, Colocation, and Cloud Estate
Governing a hybrid estate across on-premises, colocation, and cloud requires decisions about workload placement that are as much organisational as…
Greenfield vs Brownfield Data Center Development
The greenfield-versus-brownfield choice in data center development comes down to a trade-off between design freedom and speed to operational capacity.There…
Colocation for Government and Public Sector Workloads
Government and public sector workloads typically demand a level of vendor scrutiny and documentation that goes beyond standard commercial due…
Choosing a Colocation Partner for Regulated Industries
Regulated industries add a layer of vendor scrutiny that goes well beyond typical colocation due diligence, and the facilities that…
Colocation Site Selection: Seismic, Flood, and Climate Risk
Physical site risk rarely gets the scrutiny it deserves during procurement, even though a facility's location says as much about…
How Vacancy Rates Are Reshaping Colocation Negotiations
Tightening vacancy rates change the negotiating dynamic entirely — in a supply-constrained market, buyers who move early keep leverage that…
Cooling Strategy Choices: Air, Liquid, and Hybrid Approaches Compared
Cooling strategy has quietly become a capacity question as much as an engineering one — the racks a facility can…
Sustainability Reporting: What PUE Targets Really Signal
PUE is easy to quote and easy to misread — a low number on a marketing page does not always…
What ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Mean When Choosing a Colocation Provider
ISO 27001 signals that a facility has a structured information security management system in place — useful evidence, though it…